Comments on: You Can Get Anything You Want

By: April

April — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:34:56 +0000

Mr Lady, I wish you were here protesting with us! I can't tell you how uplifting it was to be with 12,000 other people who were just as upset as we were! And we're going on Sat., too. I hope this ban is lifted so you can come visit me :) April wrote..Their First Rally

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:43:40 +0000

I'd so totally join the boycott, but I'm so poor nobody'd notice. Besides, there are apparently 5,266,794 really fantastic people out in California, and if I did have the money, I'd sure as hell like to go out there and buy them a beer. Brian wrote..Election Night Cocktail

By: Election day at Lesbian Dad

Election day at Lesbian Dad — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:29:04 +0000

[...] his internet is down, and he’s stuck with local network news. He, like many other people far more heterosexual and far less Californian than I am, cared deeply about this. For the first time, my own voice cracks when I tell him that I [...]

By: Tricia

Tricia — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:24:03 +0000

Ron- Sorry, did you answer my questions? Tricia wrote..What are you?

By: Audubon Ron

Audubon Ron — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:12:15 +0000

Gnilleps: A very interesting point. When we say morality, exactly which morality. There are many. As many as there are people. Morality defined is that which is virtuous and conforming to the rules of right conduct. But whose rules and right conduct?

For instance there is a morality in this blog. Mr. Lady sets the rules and we must conform to them, perhaps sometimes begrudgingly. But we must feed the beast in order to gain passage through the abyss. That would be virtuous to the Whiskey In My Sippy Cup morality, if the only universe were this blog, that indeed would be simple. But, there are many moralities.

IF, we put all morality into blender, what would it look like – and don’t a say a daiquiri.

Let us examine Henry David Thoreau’s essay on Civil Disobedience written while jailed for refusal to pay a Poll Tax to fund the Mexican American War.

Chapter Two:

“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”

Chapter Three:

“For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?”

The second most important book I ever read was The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave.

Mr. Lady, these two books are mandatory readings if one wishes to dabble in American politics.

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Douglass/Autobiography/

http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html

Douglass wrote: “The ties that ordinarily bind children to their homes were all suspended in my case. I found no severe trial in my departure. My home was charmless; it was not home to me; on parting from it, I could not feel that I was leaving any thing which I could have enjoyed by staying.”

Audubon Ron wrote..Is Anything Made in America Anymore